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“To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you.”
“All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)”
“If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)”
“If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?”
“Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.”
“In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop g...”
“When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.”
“A big part of (Janice) Marturano's success in bringing mindfulness to this unlikely venue was that she talked about it not as a "spiritual" exercise but instead as something that made you a "better...”
“Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because deathis a part of life.”
“[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.”
“The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. The raft is used to cross the ...”
“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.”
“Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.”
“Satisampajanna ("Mindfulness and clear comprehension") should be examined carefully from the point of view of the centipede who could not walk when she thought about how she moved her limbs. And al...”
“Sitting meditation, walking meditation, and mindful eating are good opportunities for resting. When you feel agitated, if you are able to go to a park or a garden, it is an opportunity for rest. If...”
“Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration t...”
“When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there,”
“Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die bec...”
“The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.”
“The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.”
